Manifolding device for addressing envelops.



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WARD T. SMITH, OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. l

MANIFOLDING DEVICE FOR ADDBESSIVNG ENVELOPS.

Specication of Letters Patent.

` Patented Mar. 3,1914.

Application tiled December 19, 1812. Serial No. 737,753.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known' that I, WARD T. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Seattle, Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manifolding Devices for Addressing Envelops, of which the following is an exact specification.

This invention relates to addressing devices, and especially to such devices as are applicable for use in connection with typewriting machines, and has for its object to provide a device of this character by means of which a letter sheet and its envelop may be more quickly and accurately adjusted in relation to each other than has heretofore been possible, and the address imprinted on both the said sheet and its envelop at one operation.

The invention will be fully described in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of my device,

` looking from left to right in Fig. 2. Fig. 2

y sheet.

is a sectional view of the same, with a frag ment of a letter ,and its envelop, taken on the line a-m of Fig. 1.

Referring now more particularly to the drawings, reference numeral 1 represents the body sheet of my device, and integral with which are the flaps 2 and 2, which are folded over as plainly shown in Fig. 2, the portions 2a being lpasted together. The underside of the body sheet 1 has an o'set ting surface 3, which is preferably of the usual carbon deposit, such as is used in ordinary typewriter carbon paper.

I am aware that the simple use of carbon paper in connection with a letter sheet and its envelop, so that the two may be imprinted in one operation, is not new in the art, and in order to clearly point out the advantages of my present invention it is believed to be necessary to show the difficulties attending such use. In the first place, an envelop consisting, as it does, of two and in some of its portions of three thicknesses of paper, is necessarily a more rigid and refractory article to deal with than a letter Secondly, an envelop and theletter sheet vary greatly in size with respect to each other. Therefore the adjustment of one of these articles with relation to the other and with respect to the carbon paper, or other offsetting surface, is obvlously tedious and not of such character as to insure that such adjustment when once made, will be of sufficient permanence .to endure throughout the necessary o eration of addressing. Furthermore, i an ordinary sheet of carbon paper be used in connection with the letter and its envelop, to address both at the same time, matter intended to be imprinted upon the letter only will also offset upon the envelop. For example, the date line of a letter, or other like notation, properly belongs upon the letter sheet only, and should not appear upon the envelop. Therefore, it will be seen that carbon face 3 of the body sheet 1 has a definite relation to that sheet and especially to its upper, or folded edge, and it is necessary that a plain face shall exist upon the body sheet 1 above the offsetting face, so that the date line and other such matter may be imprinted upon the letter sheet only and not upon the envelop,

My device is shown iii Fig. 2 as being ready to insert between the usual rollers of the typewriting machine, the letter sheet 4 and its envelop 5 being in their respective places in the device. All that is necessary to adjust the letter sheet and envelop by means of my device, is that the upper edge of the letter sheet be thrust between the flaps 2a and the sheet 1, as far as the said flaps will permit it to go, and that the envelop 5, be thrust between the flap 2, and the sheet 1, in a similar manner. lVhen so adjusted, the whole isbrought to the writing position in the typewriting machine, the offsetting face 3 making the imprint of the address upon the envelop, and the date line only appearing upon the letter sheet at about the position of the dotted lines indicated at A, and the address at about the plane of the dotted lines indicated at B.

llVhile I have shown the gages 2 and 2L as folded over and pasted together in a particular manner, and the carbon face as being permanently allixed to the main sheet, I am aware that some other form or forms of flap may be used, and an ordinary strip of carbon paper glued or otherwise secured to the main sheet. Other minor changes will doubtless suggest themselves to others skilled in the art, without departing from `the spirit and scope of my invention. I do not therefore desire to be limited to 'the exact form shown and described, except as limited in the appended claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to protect by Let- '2. ln an addressing device, the combinaters Patent, istion of a body sheet, a carbon face thereon l. ln an addressing device, the oombinanear the lower edge thereof and a plain'face l5 tion of a body sheet, a carbon face thereon above the said carbon face and the limit 5 near the lower edge thereof, and a plain stops 2 and 2aL for :L letter sheet and an enface above the said carbon face, the top porvelop respectively, tion of said body sheet being folded back upon itself and there pasted together, and WARD T. SMITH. bent over upon one side of the body sheet, and lo the extreme top edge folded over upon the Witnesses:

opposite side thereof, to form limit stops FRED P. GORIN, for a letter sheet and an envelop respectively. R. D. SMALLEY. 

